a 31 year old woman was hospitalized for evaluation of aortic valve insufficiency and her present cardiac status. clinical and paraclinical findings strongly suggested the presence of a collagen vascular inflammatory processprecisely, the antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (aps), with systemic lupus erythematosus as the underlying disease.

Background: Cubital tunnel syndrome, a neuropathy of ulnar nerve, is the second most common entrapping syndrome in the upper limb surpassing carpal tunnel syndrome. This syndrome arises from a high pressure decompressing the nerve for a long time. Patients with cubital tunnel syndrome show numbness in the ring and small fingers. The aim of this study was to evaluate the etiology of cubital tunn...

Guillain-Barre syndrome, an acute or subacute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy, usually causes ascending paralysis, areflexia, and sensory disturbances. l A similar syndrome, more chronic and sometimes relapsing, has been called chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy.2 Thought to have an immunologic cause, Guillain-Barre syndrome can be found in association with infe...

The effects of blood purification combined with antibiotics on extravascular lung water index, inflammatory factors, and prognosis patients severe acute pancreatitis complicated respiratory distress syndrome

Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a cytokine that is secreted by the anterior pituitary and immune cells in response to surgical stress, injury, and sepsis. This cytokine appears to be a critical regulator of the inflammatory pathways, leading to systemic inflammatory response syndrome and subsequent multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. This report provides an integrated scheme de...

Sternocostoclavicular hyperostosis (SCCH) is a chronic osssifying diathesis affecting mostly juxtasternal structures and the inflammatory osteitis part of synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis, (SAPHO) syndrome.

Inflammatory neuropathies are acquired disorders of peripheral nerves and occasionally of the central nervous system that can affect individuals at any age. The course can be monophasic, relapsing, or progressive. Inflammatory neuropathies are classified as acute or chronic. The acute form reaches a nadir by 4 weeks and the chronic form over 8 weeks or greater. The most common example of an acu...

acute neutrophilic dermatosis, first described in 1964 by robert douglas sweet, is characterized by sudden onset fever, neutrophilic leukocytosis, and well demarcated erythematous papules, nodules, and plaques with dense neutrophilic infiltrates on histologic evaluation. here is a report of a 7-year-old girl who presented with high grade fever, and discrete erythematous papular skin eruptions, ...